ABOUT THE EDITOR

RACHEL KRAMER BUSSEL (rachelkramerbussel.com) is a New Jersey-based author, editor, blogger, and writing instructor. She has edited over sixty books of erotica, including Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volumes 1, 2 and 3; Best Bondage Erotica 2011-2015; Dirty Dates; On Fire; Come Again: Sex Toy Erotica; The Big Book of Orgasms; Begging For It; The Big Book of Submission; Lust in Latex; Anything for You; Baby Got Back: Anal Erotica; Suite Encounters; Going Down; Irresistible; Gotta Have It; Obsessed; Women in Lust; Surrender; Orgasmic; Cheeky Spanking Stories; Spanked; Fast Girls; Do Not Disturb; Suite Encounters; Tasting Him; Tasting Her; Please, Sir; Please, Ma’am; He’s on Top; She’s on Top; and Crossdressing. Her anthologies have won eight IPPY (Independent Publisher) Awards, and Surrender and Dirty Dates won the National Leather Association Samois Anthology Award.

Rachel has written for AVN, Bust, Cleansheets.com, Cosmopolitan, Curve, The Daily Beast, Elle.com, Fortune.com, TheFrisky.com, Glamour, Gothamist, Harper’s Bazaar, Huffington Post, Inked, Marie Claire, Newsday, New York Post, New York Observer, The New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine, Penthouse, Refinery29, Rollingstone.com, The Root, Salon, San Francisco Chronicle, Slate, Time.com, Time Out New York, and Zink, among others. She has appeared on The Gayle King Show, The Martha Stewart Show, The Berman and Berman Show, NY1, and Showtime’s Family Business. She hosted the popular In the Flesh Erotic Reading Series, featuring readers from Susie Bright to Zane, speaks at conferences and does readings and teaches erotic writing workshops across the country and online. She Tweets @raquelita, blogs at lustylady.blogspot.com, and consults about erotica at eroticawriting101.com.